My first grow
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Sparkticus
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Purple stems looks like Nitrogen. Burnt tips looks like potassium... looks like nute-lock. I don't see any perlite in the soil? Looks very dense. Your soil might be holding water too well and since you haven't watered (which flushes nutes though), the nutes make salt deposits which block the roots from absorbing what they need. Shitty problem (speaking from experience), cuz you need to water but your plants have too much, already. A repotting maybe risky with them in that condition, but might be the best option. Unless someone has some way of managing it that I don't know about. I have a method that worked for me but, My plants weren't that bad. I can't say how full-proof it is. If the drain holes in the pot are flush with the bottom of the pot, you can sit it on a few paper towels to try to suck some water through. The paper towels will just keep absorbing as long as there in contact with the soil. When they're totally soaked, put new ones and do it some more. Good luck.
Sparkticus
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Also, the roots on cuttings are small...to water the soil in a 3 gallon pot, your gonna use more water than those little roots can handle. They don't use the water and the soil stays wet. Could be just root rot. May want to put them into a 1 gallon or smaller even and once they're bigger and stronger with a good root ball, transplant into a flowering pot (3-5 gal).
Sparkticus
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No problem.
Silky Shagsalot
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so is coco-tek coco coir? if so, your prob. is easily fixed. you're treating the coco like it's soil. can't do that. you need to adjust your grow style to a hydro grow. ph to 5.8, feed every 3 days or so, till they start to take off. then shorten the feeding interval. you should end up feeding every day. run-off is key in coco. get at least 10-15% "every," time you feed. since you're not under hid lights, you want to increase feed strength slowly. under hid, they grow a lot, and eat a lot. since your lighting is tubes/cfl(?) you may not need to feed at the higher ppm levels. just watch your plants. they'll tell you when it's time to increase your ppm.
I'm actually starting up and what I'm going to be using coco soilus or something like that, but what do you think of house and gardens cause people tell me advanced, but there just so many nut lines that idk wtf to choose what do you recommend?
Silky Shagsalot
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i've been using h&g coco line for years. never had a problem with it. i have no doubt advanced works fine, but i just never got on that bandwagon... i use the a&b, and a few of the h&g supps.